Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands, Volume 3Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1838 |
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Page 102 - Edition (London, 1832-1836), iii. 108. by its proprietors, and could be appropriated only to the use of these sacred personages. No individual was allowed to touch the body of the king or queen ; and every one who should stand over them, or pass the hand over their heads, would be liable to pay for the sacrilegious act with the forfeiture of his life. It was on account of this supposed sacredness of person that they could never enter any dwellings, excepting those that were specially dedicated to...
Page 249 - ... of joy ; these friends remained some time in Fare, and the period they spent with us was one of unusual interest and ' enjoyment. In the close of this year, 1821, the Mission and the nation experienced the heaviest bereavement that had occurred since the introduction of Christianity. This was the death of the king, Pomare II. which took place on the seventh of December, the day preceding the deputation's arrival in Huahine. His health had been for some time declining, but his departure at last...
Page 166 - I have reflected on our actual situation, so far removed, in the event of any casualty, from human observation and assistance, and preserved from certain death only by a few feet of thin board, which my own unskilful hands had nailed together, a sense of the wakeful care of the Almighty has alone afforded composure ; and when I have gazed on the magnificent and boundless assemblage of suns and worlds, whose rays have shed their lustre over the scene, and have remembered that they were formed, sustained,...
Page 350 - In front of the hut sat his wife, and around her played two or three little children. In passing from the hut to the boat, Tetoro struck one of the little ones with his foot ; the child cried — and, though the chief had his mat on, and his gun in his hand, and was in the act of stepping into the boat where we were waiting for him, he...
Page 13 - It would be too much to suppose that they were all influenced by the highest motives, in the desire they thus manifested for the sacred volume ; but while some probably sought it only as an article of property in high and general esteem, others were undoubtedly actuated by a conviction that it was able to make them wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 140 - ... &c. in eighteen articles. After reading and explaining the several articles, he asked the chiefs if they approved of them. They replied aloud, ' We agree to them; we heartily agree to them.' The king then addressed the people, and desired them, if they approved of the laws, to signify the same by lifting up their right hands. This was unanimously done, with a remarkable rushing noise, owing to the thousands of arms being lifted at once.
Page 101 - Every thing in the least degree connected with the king or queen — the cloth they wore, the houses in which they dwelt, the canoes in which they voyaged, the men by whom they were borne when they journeyed by land, became sacred — • and even the sounds in the language, composing their names, could no longer be appropriated to ordinary significations.
Page 103 - As represented in the engraving, inserted in the beginning of vol. ii. transit from the shoulders of one to those of another, at the termination of an ordinary stage, was accompanied with much greater despatch than the horses of a mail-coach are changed, or an equestrian could alight and remount. On these occasions, their majesties never suffered their feet to touch the ground; but when they wished to change, what to them answered the purpose of horses, they called two of the men, who were running...
Page 214 - Queen: he knew that they had laws: he had thought that those laws protected the poor man's property, as well as that of Kings and Chiefs ; and he wished to know whether it was right that, without his knowledge or consent, the tree should have been cut down. The Magistrate, turning to the Queen, asked if she had ordered the tree to be cut down : she answered,
Page 102 - It was on account of this supposed sacredness of person that they could never enter any dwellings, excepting those that were specially dedicated to their use, and prohibited to all others ; nor might they tread on the ground in any part of the island but their own hereditary districts. The sovereign and his consort always appeared in public on men's shoulders, and travelled in this manner wherever they journeyed by land. They were seated on the neck or shoulders of their bearers, who were generally...